DETECTS A THIEF FROM BED.; Sick Woman Watches a Robber from Window and Captures Him.

Miss Elizabeth Howard of 159 East 104th Street, who had been attempting for three days to resist the call of her business, was compelled yesterday afternoon to get up from her sick bed to go out and have a thief arrested. She is regularly employed as a detective by a Fifth Avenue department store. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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